Conundrum

On Tuesday, we got a note from Ree's teacher.

She hit a boy in class.

They were so proud of her!

This was the first time she had shown any sign of standing up for herself at school.  At home she is happy to boss around the dogs, and she is starting to tell her brothers what to do (although she mostly shrieks in fear if they take her stuff), but at school, not so much.

So although she has made a lot of progress socially, she still has a long way to go since we kinda failed at socializing her the last couple of years.  (Not that she is the first kid in the history of the world to stay at home with a parental unit until she is three-years-old, but she is the freak exception in the current world in which kids begin taking music lessons and attending formal play dates when they are six-months-old and are playing soccer, taking gymnastics, and learning piano by the time they are three.)  But academically she is doing just fine, and is actually way ahead of the curve.

And now, in the next two weeks, we have to decide if we want to put her in the four-year-old class at preschool, which is where she fits chronologically and academically, or in the three-year-old class which is the natural progression from this year's class and where she might fit better socially.

I was so hoping we could put off school dilemmas until she was deciding between Harvard and UC Berkley.  School decisions shouldn't be so hard at this age!